From: jeffreyj@magna.ksu.ksu.edu (Jeffrey John Martin) Subject: answer to a1 a2 mount Date: 7 Jan 1993 02:13:23 GMT
Here is a letter I received from someone having the same problem as I and
the solution I was shown:
>
> Please let me know any answers you get, I'm also trying to install
> the SLS-linux package. I get the same message "more command not found".
>
> When I first change disks (a1 out, a2 in) and then type the requested
> number for the floppy drive to do the install from I don't get the
> message that says 'type more /user/README'. I than tried mounting a2
> with sysinstall -mount, but that fails.
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when you put in a2 and then select the drive number it loads a2 but I am guessing a1 and a2 do not contain "more". At the type more message type fdisk and set up your disk partitions. The gentleman helping me set up
the drive as follows:
Command (m for help):
Disk /dev/hda: 8 heads, 38 sectors, 548 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 304 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 102 15485 1 DOS 12-bit FAT
/dev/hda2 103 103 170 10336 81 Linux/MINIX
/dev/hda3 171 171 521 53352 83 Linux extfs
/dev/hda4 522 522 548 4104 82 Linux swap
Command (m for help):
The Id numbers represent dos primary 1, linux primary 81, linux extended 83, and linux swap 82. After that we ran the intallation program and did the disk
swapping thing.
Is this something that should be in the instructions? Comments?